Improvement in clasps



G. FROST & G. H. PHELPS.

CLASP.

Patented Nov. 16,1875.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE FROST AND GEORGE H. PHELPS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLASPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,983, dated November 16, 1875 application filed November 1, 1875.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that we, GEORGE FROST and GEORGE E. PHELPS, of Boston, Massachusetts, have invented an Adjustable Attach ment for Securing and Adjusting Skirts, &c., to a Oorset or Under-Waist.

Our invention consists of an improved clasphook, having a spring-hook at one end and a clasp-hook at the other and the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, to which reference is made, in which like letters indicate the same parts in all the figures, Figure lrepresents the blank from which the clasp-hook is formed. Fig. 2 is a right crosssection of the clasphook after it is formed. Fig. 3 illustrates the manner of using the clasp-hook.

Referring to the drawings, Fig. 1 represents the blank stamped from one piece of metal, with the long tongue O at one endfan'd the short one, D, at the other. The intermediate or shank portion is made wider than the parts from which the hooks are formed, and the spring tongue or guard E is struck from the center of the shank, as shown. The long tongue (3 is bent, so as to bring the end of it nearly in contact with the shank, forming a spring-hook, to which a ring or analogous ar ticle may be easily attached, but which cannot be detached except by a positive movement. The short tongue D is bent in a semicircular form, and the spring tongue or guard E is then bent at such an angle from the shank as to intercept the end of the hook D, and forms a spring tongue or guard therefor.

The device thus formed has a spring-hook at one end and a clasp-hook at the other, as shown in cross-section in Fig. 2. The application of our invention is shown in Fig. 3. A piece of tape, A, which is to be.

and the clasp at the top, the latter guarded by a spring-tongue, which is struck from the center of the shank, substantially as herein shown and described.

GEORGE FROST. GEORGE HENRY PHELP Witnesses:

GEORGE H. GROOE, S. P. SKINNER. 

